President Donald Trump will give the first State of the Union address of his second term tomorrow. He’s expected to defend his economic record and restate his position…
Read more 4 Questions About Trump’s State of the UnionROCKINGHAM COUNTY, N.C. — Phil Berger entered the small auditorium at Rockingham Community College and prepared to defend his record to a crowd of MAGA-hat-wearing constituents, with just…
Read more In North Carolina, a tight primary could upend the balance of conservative powerLong before campaign season, the images or brands of the political parties are in the public mind. We asked people to weigh in right now on various descriptions…
Read more CBS News poll analysis on words voters pick to describe the Democratic and Republican partiesDemocrat Taylor Rehmet flipped a historically Republican district of Texas during a special election on Saturday to claim a closely watched state Senate seat. The military veteran and…
Read more Democrat flips Texas district Donald Trump won by 17 pointsNo matter how low one’s expectations were for 2025, the most striking thing about the year when Donald Trump became President again is how much worse it turned…
Read more Donald Trump’s Golden Age of AwfulVice President JD Vance said Sunday the conservative movement should be open to everyone as long as they “love America,” declining to condemn a streak of antisemitism that…
Read more After GOP fights about antisemitism, JD Vance rejects ‘purity tests’ and says there’s ‘more important work to do than canceling each other’ | FortuneThe White House’s plan to draft an Affordable Care Act subsidies extension may have hit a snag. CBS News has confirmed that House Speaker Mike Johnson called senior…
Read more House Speaker Mike Johnson says House GOP does not want to extend health care subsidies: sourcesTrumpworld schism: On Friday night, MAGA Queen Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her resignation from Congress. “I’ve always represented the common American man and woman as a member of…
Read more Trouble in paradiseTim Davis became the Tarrant County Republican Party Chair on Nov. 22, 2025. He will finish out Bo French’s term. Rachel Royster rroyster@star-telegram.com Tim Davis is the newly…
Read more Tarrant County Republicans elect new chair after opponents concede in runoffRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a loyal supporter-turned-critic of President Donald Trump who faced his political retribution if she sought reelection, said Friday she is resigning from Congress…
Read more MAGA stalwart Marjorie Taylor Greene, who defied Trump on Epstein files, will resign from Congress to avoid ‘hurtful and hateful primary’ | Fortune(CNN) — Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced on Friday that she will be resigning from office in January, stunning some in her own party after a shocking,…
Read more GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will leave Congress after five turbulent yearsOn Thursday morning, not long after entering Washington National Cathedral for the funeral of Dick Cheney, I ran into Rachel Maddow. She gave me a hug. A couple…
Read more Dick Cheney’s Long, Strange GoodbyePresident Trump now says it’s worth digging deeper into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but only as it pertains to Democrats.CBS News’ Scott MacFarlane and Aaron Navarro have…
Read more Trump avoids addressing Epstein files on camera, but calls for more investigation onlineIt’s the end of the week that marked the end of a record-breaking government shutdown. Federal workers went back to their jobs yesterday. Here’s a look at what…
Read more Weekly Roundup: Anatomy of a Cave and a $2,000 Check?On Wednesday, more than twenty thousand pages of documents from Epstein’s files were released—not from the much-anticipated Justice Department trove but from a separate collection subpoenaed by Congress…
Read more The Epstein Scandal Is Now a Chronic Disease of the Trump PresidencyOn Tuesday, Democrats Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill won their gubernatorial races and exceeded pollsters’ expectations. Political strategists Alex Conant and Ofirah Yheskel, along with CBS News political…
Read more Examining why Democrats swept 2025 electionsDemocrats won big in Tuesday night’s elections in New Jersey, Virginia, New York City, and California. Marianna Sotomayor, congressional reporter for The Washington Post, and Deepa Shivaram, White…
Read more Democrats’ 2025 election victories reportedly unnerve Republicans(CNN) — Democrats’ dominance in Tuesday’s elections reset expectations ahead of next year’s midterm battle for House and Senate control, reinvigorating a party that has been in the political wilderness and…
Read more Warning signs for the GOP, lessons for Democrats: How Tuesday’s results will shape the 2026 midtermsAs I think about Dick Cheney after his death, my memory offers up a snippet from an interview I had with Bob Michel when I was reporting for…
Read more Dick Cheney’s Brand of ConservatismSouth Asians have played a prominent role in President Trump’s universe, especially in his second term. Second Lady Usha Vance is the daughter of Indian immigrants who came…
Read more Commentary: MAGA’s ‘big tent’ is burning down amid explosion of antisemitism, racism